The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-07-22
GUIDES or The YOUNG.

GUIDES Or The YOUNG
Second Days Proceedings of the Teach.
ers' Convention-Thc Association Elects
New Omcers-San Francisco to Be the
Next Place of Meeting-TopIcs Dis
cussed.
CHICAGO, july 15.-Oyer rs 0 teachers
had registe ed up to last evening, q
members of the as ;ociaticn, yet from the
hum Der of teachers TO be seen about the
streets and In almost every part of the
city 1t is estimated that there is more than
twice that number of them in the city.
Go to the Exposition building ana oas
enet unters jam. Every aisle is crowded,
and in front of every exhibit is a crowd Of
admiring critics. They are inspecting the
work of each others schools and profting
by it,
The convention met at nine o'clock a. m.
III Central Music Hail. The secretary read
a communication from the General John
A. Logan Post, No. SAC, of the Grand Army
of the Republic, in which, after the ex-
preston of hearty greetings and saluta-
tions to the officers Of ''the Grand Army
Of American Children the following res
6lutioIis was embodied:
"RsSoIUed, That as the public school is estab-
lished chiefly in the interest of National preser-
walton and prosperity its teachers should in all
their teachings emphasize and magnify What
ever tends to make our youth appreciate tha
privileges and intelligently discharge the duties
of American citizenship; that the history of the
nation and the principles Of constitutional gov
eminent and law should be taught in all public
schools; and that loyalty, patriotism and ODE
dience to constitutional law should be diligently
impressed upon the minds of all our children"
The reading of the comm unieatien was
received with loud cheers, and the resolu-
ton Yves referred to the appropriate COM
mittee.
A message from the Massachusetts
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, recommending the teachers to
train children to habits Of humanity and
kindness toward dumb beasts, was enthu.
siastically endorsed by the President and
audience.
The report of the Committee on the
Nomination of Officers named, ne Presi-
dent, Aaron Cove, of Colorado; as Scores
tary, James H. Garfield, Kansas; Treas
urer Edwin G. Hewett, Illinois; First
Vice=Presideht, William e. Sheldon,
Massachusetts. Touching and appropriate
references were made by the Committee
on Neurology to the decease of the late
Mark Hopkins and others.
DIR. James B. Angela president of Mich
igan University, read lengthy and inter-
esting paper on ''The Relation of the Uni.,
versity, College and Higher archaeological
Schools to the Public System of Instruc-
tion." President Angel set forth in the
abstract that we recognize as a fact that
the universities preceded and helpeS to
n ia hot ho NH.
versities were aided in reaching an ele.
waited position by the growing excel
lence of the lower schools. Some of the
ways in which the universities may help
the schools are by showing interest, svms
pathy, taking part in the conventions of
teachers and school administrators; by
specially training teachers; By having
competent professors of pedagogy; By
making a special study of educational
methods part Of university work, and by
encouraging the schools to raise their grade
of work as rapidly as possible.
The next contributor to the discussion
was Rev. j. W. Strong, D. D., President
of Carleton College, Minnesota, who read
paper upon 1.-THE Christian College," in
which he strongly advocated the resump-
ten of religious teaching in education.
Rev. Dr. Isaac L. Hopkins, president of
Emory College, Georgia, spoke for nearly
half an hour on the responsibility of the
Government, especially that of the State, in
education. He recommended the estab-
lishment of bureaus of research into spec
ial departments of learning and the distri-
button Of the results of such Investigations
Prof T. 81. Mcbride, of Iowa University,
took up the university side of the ques-
ton, and went into a eulogistic discourse
on the influence of the universities on the
educational, social, business and profess
sional world. University graduates were
specially fitted as citizens to grapple with,
appreciate, sustain and direct to best re-
suits system of public instruction, and
such work ought to be intrusted to them.
The discussion was continued at consid-
cradle length by T. II. Chamberlain, D. D.,
president of the Wisconsin State Univer-
sity, DR.. +. A. Noble, editor of the Ad-
raa1ce, Rev. Dr. Mayo, Rev. Mr.. Price, of
Tennessee, Mr.. Campbell, of California,
and DR.. Hagar. of Massachusetts.
Another crowd of sweltering teachers
packed Farwell Hall in the afternoon to
listen to an address by President W. N.
Mailman, of the kindergarten department..
Mr. Mailman has the La Porte lind Dis
semblage there were only nineteen men.
After Mr.. Hailman's address Mrs. Clara
A. Burr, of Oswego, n. Y, read a paper
on kindergarten training.
Other department meetings held in the
afternoon included those of Art Edaca-
ticn, Industrial Education, Superinte nd
ence. Normal Schools, Higher instruction,
Music and Secondary Education. In the
Normal
by Charles De Garmo, of Normal,
ILL. and G. S. Albee, of Oshkosh, Wis,
the substance of Mr.. Albee's paper being
that, however apt a scholar might be, he
is unfit to teach until he has had the ele-
ments of teaching lnstilled in him and his
confusion Of knowledge so dissected and
arranged as to enable him to present it in.
tellgibly to those under his direction.
The Manual Training section held its
session at the Chicago Opera-House. Pres.
ident Ord way talked an hour. He depre-
Gated the Russian system that permitted
a boy to only learn how to make
part of a thing. 1t had been prac-
ticed in Boston three years and then
thrown aside for the Swiss, which per.
mits boy to begin and complete the
object to be made. When boy is taught
only to make joint he can take no en-
enlargement in it. If he may make the
whole article he sees what he is dong and
it acts as stimulant He hoped the States
would push the training-schools as part
of the public education.
Last night Central Music Hall was well
flied, and the visitors listened attentively
to papers on Reading Circles and Home
Study" by Chancellor Vincent, of Chau-
tauqua; Evening Schools" by Or. Albert
Marble, of Massachusetts,, and ''Public Lii
braries," by Thomas ]. Morgan, of Rhode
Island.
The Board of Directors of the National
Educational Association met yesterday
and decided to hold the next convention at
San Francisco.